Researchers typically utilize qualitative methods—including interviews [1]}, ethnography [2]}, case studies [3]}, and grounded theory [4]}—to answer questions of “what happens,” “how it happens,” and “why it happens” in organizations. Prominent examples with engineering organizations include assessments of the Three Mile Island [5]} and Challenger [6]} disasters, though studies also utilize such methods to broaden and deepen understandings of non-catastrophic activities in engineering organizations [7]}, [8]}, [9]}, [10]}, [11]}, [12]}.
